Conflict Sociologists Flashcards
Althusser
Ideological state apparatus
Repressive state apparatus
Bowles and Gintis
correspondence principle
Bourdieu
Cultural Capital
willis
learning to labour
what is the ideological state apparatus
controls people’s beliefs, ideas and thoughts
-religion, education and media
what is the repressive state apparatus
maintains physical control of the public
- police, army, courts
criticisms of althusser
limited evidence
deterministic
postmodernists suggest education expresses ability
what is the correspondence principle
school mirrors the workplace
contemporary applications of the correspondence principle
uniform
hierarchy in school
academies have close links to school
learning to labour
lads. willis suggested that pupils were aware of exploitation and he observed a group of wc boys and found that they gave up on school, because they believed they had no chance because of their background. concluded that the lads were waiting to leave school and that education was ineffective as an agent of socialisation.
achievement by gender
girls underachieved compared to boys due to:
- lower expectations
-gendered subject choices
-lack of career options
-girls were socialised into expressive roles
since 1980s, girls started to achieve higher than boys due to:
- the rise of feminism
-career applications
- feminisation of education
- female role models
education of different genders in education
-sexual harassment in school
-higher expectations of girls in behaviour
- rigid control on girls behaviour
gender socialisation
-girls have less freedom
formation of gender identities
-schools reinforce traditional feminine identities
-uniform regulations
-sports
gender subject images
-change in gendered images represent girls positively
-traditional gender domains
